Zero Escape/Nonary Games thread

First two games were just rereleased on PC.
Also, heres a Flash game
newgrounds.com/portal/view/615863

The big question is, how did they handled 999's dual-screens meta aspect ?

Wasn't that just one puzzle where you had to turn the DS upside down? They probably just flipped the screen.

My guess would be that they went the mobile route, i.e. they just made it a VN.

It's more of the narrative structure for the whole game

I'm a little less concerned with how they botched that and I'm more disappointed to see that instead of making upscaled prerenders for 999 they just made the whole thing 3D instead. Not that I really feel attached to the series post-ZTD anyway.

Fucking love the series, but hell, the third game has som cringe worthy graphics. Why did they abandoned the VN art style? It was so fucking good.
I'm still trying to create enough courage to play the third game, since I hate the graphic style (it looks like they were trying to appeal to telltale audience).

As a fan of the series, you can fairly safely skip ZTD. It raises more questions than it answers about the series timeline and the various powers.

Budget

The concept art and promotional art for ZTD looks amazing, it's just the game itself that looks like dogshit

Wait, 3D graphics are more expensive than actually 2D drawing?

If I'm remembering correctly they outsourced the visual part of the game. And yeah, it is possible that using either stock 3D models or really shitty low-effort ones would be more expensive than making a good-looking 2D game